links for 2008-08-09 [delicious.com]

  • "Misused words and phrases can make us sound less intelligent than we'd like to sound. Here are our top 41 misses and their correct counterparts…" They got "fill the bill" but let "fall between the cracks" fall through the cracks.
  • The inspiration for the XS was "to maintain a serene lifestyle rather than having a place to spend the rest of one’s life maintaining." — There's something a little Unabomber about it, but I WANT.
  • "Pausing only for solipsistic paragraphs of ever greater length to mark his gradual mental disintegration and a lingering sense that everyone might be guilty of something even if it was only to be alive, he presented himself at the Court once more."
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One Response

  1. I still think “between the cracks” is a perfectly cromulent usage. Sitting on one’s ass on the pavement.

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